Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consideration of the possibility of a state university in Massachusetts we have two educational percepts thrown upon our visions which at present divide America. Professor Maxcy of Williams has warned his alumni against the spread of utilitarianism or vocationalism in the home of humanities. Then President Lowell, representing an endowed university, declares that the offer of free education, as provided by a state university, often constitutes a bribe to students...
...same time there are many questions which naturally arise. What will happen to British prestige in the East when agitators spread the tale that the empire was forced to buy off Russia? What will happen to British influence in Russia if the Bolshevists should fall from power? England's Russian policy has certainly been to play both ends against the middle. But whatever the future may bring forth, Lloyd George will no doubt have a solution and will sign more pacts to straighten matters out. He has been in tight places before, and he, has always been able...
...open shop. This shop is not a solution of the problem but the cause of it. The number of strikes increasing each year shows that labor eventually must be satisfied in the only way possible. The growth of the A. F. of L. shows how the movement has spread. The workers are no longer content under the open shop system with its bad working conditions, payment of lower than a standard of living wage, and its ineffective collective bargaining...
...feel competent to judge. In any case I suggest that those who are acquainted with Harvard men whom they consider to be snobs attribute the fact of snobbishness to the men themselves rather then to the college from which they were graduated. If there exists a wide-spread belief outside New England to the effect that Harvard College is a manufactory of snobs, the quickest way to remove hostility to Harvard arising from such a cause is to disabuse the popular mind of such a notion, and the surest way to do this is not by propaganda but by example...
Except for the years 1917 and 1918 the University has been represented by a lacrosse team for the last forty years, and until recently they were of championship calibre. With the spread of the game competition has become keener. In the East the game is gradually being adopted by the larger college. The Naval Academy, Yale, Syracuse, and the University of Pennsylvania being the most recent ones to take the step. These newcomers have cut wide paths. In the South the "Middies" are classed with the best. In the North, Syracuse won the championship the first year it was admitted...